Tahirih expresses concern about a new bill introduced in Senate intended to stop child marriages.

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USCIS released a new report on how the U.S. immigration system encourages child marriages. Tahirih is alarmed by the data in the report, and urges USCIS to provide further clarifications for a better understanding of the problem.

The governor of Ohio signed a new marriage bill limiting marriage to legal adults.

Tahirih’s Senior Counsel for Policy and Strategy, Jeanne Smoot, was quoted in Reuters about how the publicized data and survivor stories of child marriage are helping the public understand the […]

Jeanne Smoot, Tahirih’s Counsel for Policy and Strategy, wrote a letter to the editor of the Washington Post about the need to change laws that allow underage marriage to happen in the U.S.

Lawmakers in Utah are pushing to raise the legal marriage age to 18.